I decided to take a sidestep from making Hack42-Mate. I wondered if it would be possible to make an alcoholic version of my Mate recipe. The most natural way seemed to be a mead. The recipe was based on mead recipes I found [http://users.soe.ucsc.edu/~karplus/mead-recipe.html here] and on the two best Mate recipes (3 & 6) from the First Iteration.

I decided to take a sidestep from making Hack42-Mate. I wondered if it would be possible to make an alcoholic version of my Mate recipe. The most natural way seemed to be a mead. The recipe was based on mead recipes I found [http://users.soe.ucsc.edu/~karplus/mead-recipe.html here] and on the two best Mate recipes (3 & 6) from the First Iteration.<br>

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* Taragui Mate con Palo

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For better readability of this page the process and result of my Mate mead can be found [[Gebruiker:Lurwah/Hack42-Mate/Fermentation|here]].

Hack42-Mate

My goal is to develop a recipe for an enjoyable Mate-based soda. If eventually found to be good (enough), we might decide to drink our own Mate instead of buying Club-Mate. Whether we do this or not, it is always possible to brew a batch for a party or large event. Who would say no to a keg of home-brew Mate?

First Iteration

In this iteration I tried to find out a basic recipe that works, or points towards the right direction.
I brewed six different bottles of Mate-soda, based on recipes I found. The plan was to make three basic recipes twice and brew the Mate for either five or seven minutes, resulting in six different batches. The three basic methods were:

This last method is based on the traditional preparation of yerba mate tea.
All recipes were cooled to serving temperature and then carbonated with a SodaClub machine.
I gathered a taste panel during one of our meets for a "blind" (they didn't know the recipes) tasting of the several batches I brewed. Of course, I also gave them a glass of the original Club-Mate (some people didn't like Club-Mate as much as Club-Mate...). They kindly gave their feedback, a summary of which can be found below the recipes.

Recipes

Note: All degrees(°) are in centigrade.

Version 1.

1 liter water (90°)

1 gram citric acid (dissolved)

70 grams sugar (dissolved)

20 grams Mate (brew for five minutes)

(Note: Resulted in rapid expulsion of copious amounts of foam after adding CO2)

Question form

Results

Bottle label to recipe key

A:6

B:1

C:Original Club-Mate

D:5

E:2

F:4

G:3

The Dutch results are here. (Summary: Version 3&6 were most popular)
I have not yet seen anybody use the recipes in version 3 & 6 to make a Mate-soda. So for me it was an exciting result, that these turned out to be the better tasting ones. I decided after the tasting to work on these two recipes in the future.

Found Recipes

While researching I found some recipes of others trying to brew, or brewing, their own Mate soda. I collected those recipes on this page.

Fermentation

I decided to take a sidestep from making Hack42-Mate. I wondered if it would be possible to make an alcoholic version of my Mate recipe. The most natural way seemed to be a mead. The recipe was based on mead recipes I found here and on the two best Mate recipes (3 & 6) from the First Iteration.
For better readability of this page the process and result of my Mate mead can be found here.